Never a boring time

Saturday was going to be good. We did not have to be abywhere, so I did not have to get up early . After our usual Saturday waffles, we got dressed and headed to get feed. Brett & I had talked about going to Nate's for crawfish earlier this week, but waited until Madison & Gavin could go. I am pretty particular about my crawfish. I do not like to peel them and see the "Thanksgiving Dinner" it just ate. I am guessing most restaurants do not purge them before boiling. Ok, so we get our crawfish at Nate's. But, there is not any corn or potatoes. When we asked, our waitress told us we had to order them seperate. WHAT!?!? Shouldn't that be part of the order? We order more crawfish and some potatoes and corn. With Gavin getting a pitching machine, he needed more balls, so off to the sporting store. Now mind you we have Liam with us, he does not really like the sporting goods store, so Brett drops Liam, Madison, & myself at Toys 'r Us. This should keep Liam entertained. I ask Madison to watch him so I can get a new sheet for his bed. I go around the corner and come back and they are gone. No big deal...they are on the next isle. Not there...next isle....not there, go up and down the isles calling their names and looking for them. No where to be found. I am not panicing, but I wish I had given Madison her phone back. I think if I go to the front of the store, I can see if they come out of any of the isles. I wait about 5 minutes and the nice customer service lady asks if I need any thing. I tell her I cannot find my kids and could she page them for me. They call for them twice, ask what they are wearing and their ages, call again and them call to lock the doors and search the store. I am trying not to panic, but I have met myself and I and PANICING. I really want to cry, but I am trying to stay composed. All of the sudden I hear, "Found them". Hooray!!!! Liam was at the Thomas the Train set and Madison could not get him to leave. She said she didn't hear me calling her name. Holy Cow!!! I have never been more scared. I didn't think she would have left without telling me, but now days you never know what will happen. I am just glad that Toys 'r Us was willing to lock down the store to help locate someone's kids. What a relief.

Now, I have swine flu to worry about.

Graduation Already ?!?!?!

I knew the day Madison was born, she would grow up and it would be fast (especially looking back). Well...grow up is right. She will be in high school in the fall. How can that be? I can't be old enough to have a high schooler. Where have the past 14 years gone? When we got her graduation pictures and it really hit home, she is growing up. She is no longer the little baby girl. I know I better cherish the next 4 years because it will be on to college. But, for today, I will be glad she is still growing up and that we had to ground her for being mouthy. Hmmm....I wonder where she gets that, probably from her dad's side, never her mom's side.

I wanna go to BIG Church

Most Sundays, Liam goes from his Sunday School class to the nursery thanks to his teacher. I usually check on him through the back door. Today, I went to his class to see him and take him to Ms Connie's class. He told me he did not want to go to Ms. Connie's, he wanted to go to "Big Church" ( regular church service). I could not tell him no, so off we went. Brett was giving blood in the fellowship hall and Gavin was getting dressed in his acolyte clothes. Liam and I got a seat and waited. Madison sits with the youth so I am all by myself with Liam. We go over the rules of not talking and we sit down unless we all stand up. Liam agrees to this thanks to a little soda bribe. When Gavin was an acolyte (person that carries the light (candle lighter), takes the offering to the altar and brings the light out) I am usually nervous. There have been times when his light goes out and has to get the other person lighting to re-light his candle, or he forgets to get the light before church is over and he is rushing to get the candle out. Today there we no major problems with Gavin other than his light went out again. (We have decided there is a vent that blows at the wrong angle.) Liam did pretty good until the offering, which was a good time to take him to the nursery. Maybe next week, he will last longer. He might even get to go down for the children's sermon.

Sorry Mary, I did not get any pics of Gavin as an acolyte. He is very modest when it comes to serving and get embarassed when I try to take pictures. I will get some I promise.

A late hatching

Ok...if you know anything about our family, you know we have a lot of different animals. Well to add to the list of semi-zoo animals. We now have 10 baby quail. Yes, quail. They hatched last night or sometime yesteraday. When we got home from Gavin's game, Brett checked the incubator and there were 9 little birds hopping around. The one egg that was still intact, was to be left in and we were going to wait a day or so before we threw it away. But, we noticed it was still moving around after we put it back. Maybe 5 mintues later we have a newly hatched bird. It was pretty exciting to watch the bird break out of the shell. The quail we hatched are off-spring from the 4 original quail from last year. Fear not...we will not be serving quail for dinner anytime soon. They are too little and too much work to try and eat.

Our Easter Bunnies

On our way back from looking at the cows, we saw a rabbit. (This is not an unusual event as they are all over.) Once we were back at the house, Madison & Gavin were yelling for us to come quick. Most of the time this is not a good thing and since they are both in the back yard, yelling, we ran to see what was going on. In a small hole in the back yard was this cute little bunny.



Liam saw that it was Peter Coddontail and tried to pick it up. I have no idea if these animals have any diseases, but I'm not taking any chances. So he got mad and scared one of this rabbits siblings onto our porch behind the trash can.


While I was looking at this rabbit, Madison & Brett both found a rabbit. I guess the rabbit we saw at the barn was the mother of these 4 rabbits. I guess it is fitting that this is Easter weekend and we see bunnies at our house. I am just hoping they will still be around tomorrow morning. Madison has lost her mind since she wanted to bring one of them in the house. When I told her no, she wanted to know if she could buy a rabbit. Absolutely NOT!!! We are not getting a rabbit. We have enough animals. I think this blog should have been named, "Life at the Funny Farm" or "3 Kids and a lot of animals". Some days it is a real zoo around here.

Madison's rabbit

Brett's rabbit

My Basket is too heavy

All lined up ready to hunt

I see another egg!!!

The monkey baskey is full, and too heavy.

Playing in the older classes playhouse

Today was Liam's egg hunt at school. I barely made it before they started, but I got there just in time to see his class sitting quietly by the door with their baskets. The playground was full of colorful eggs. It is quiet funny to watch how they can pick up one egg and miss the egg right next to the first one. Some of the eggs were open and Liam wanted to spend time putting it back together before he put it in his basket. When his basket was full, I was handed the basket because "it is too heavy" and he was off to play. His other friends were looking at their loot, not Liam he is running and sliding. I guess he is over the egg hunting.

It's Somebody's Birthday Today

Happy Birthday April!!!

I am fortunate that my circle of friends includes April. For over 5 years, she sat by me at work, listened to my crazy ideas (as crazy as they were, she never once told me I was out of my mind), shared joys, births, frustrations, and layoffs. I can even accidentially call her at 2 am and hang up on her and she doesn't get mad, and she can return the favor and we just laugh about it. That is a true friend. If I cannot find something, I will call April, as she will give me an idea of where to look and if she needs directions, I usually can get her there (with my restaurant directions). I got her to try goat cheese, ok that was a trick, but she tried it. She got me to eat chips and mustard. Unfortunately now, that we do not work together, it is hard to find time to get together, but when we do there is always a good laugh coming with either a story about her kids or mine. It is too bad that I do not have a pic to post, but, I think I lost them all.

I hope you have a great 21st birthday April !!!

19-1

That was the score of Gavin's game tonight. His team was the winning team. I am glad the boys were mature enough not to gloat about the score. I think they have all been on the losing end and it is not fun. Gavin did not pitch tonight which was good since Madison forgot my camera, after I called to remind her to bring it. He did get up to bat 3 times and struck each time. I think some time at the batting cages will help. That and getting the 1st game out of the way, usually gets his head straight. I was thankful that the game was called due to a run rule. Especially since Thursday, we have a double header. Liam is so excited about baseball...only one more season and we're playing T-ball.

Eggs, Eggs, and more Eggs

After church today, was the children's egg hunt. We have talked about getting Easter Eggs for almost a week. Liam has been really excited about his school's egg hunt, so what better way to prepare, but go to the church egg hunt. Liam helped me fill eggs yestarday, only he wanted to out 1 piece of candy in an egg and no more. I guess he thought he would get to eat the rest. The youth has sectioned off age groups for the kids, so the little ones would not get trampled by the older ones. Of course, my child was the one picking eggs before they started. Good thing he olny had 2 in his basket before I stopped him. Gavin hunted eggs, but only because some of his friends were, but no pictures. He's way too cool to have proof he hunted eggs.

lots of eggs
What a sweet face!!!

Over basket runneth over

Liam & the BIG slide

Liam went to his 1st bounce house party last weekend and had a good time even though his ears were bothering him. Since the bounce place only allowed one party in the bounce room, I felt a little better that he would not be run over by bigger kids. He was not sure of the regular bounce house since it was not as soft as the one in the Wiggly Play Place. Once he fell, that was all for him, on to the next thing. All of his friends from school were sliding down the big slide and that looked fun until it was his turn. Brett & I were at the bottom and Liam was not moving. The nice boy at the top put him on a mat and down he came. You can tell on his face that this is not what he wants to do. The next room has a smaller slide and he did not like it any better. At least he tried.

Liam's word bubble - What have I gotten myself into?
Word bubble - This one is not any better.